Falsafa, Issue 7, Spring 2025
Contents
A Defense of the Plain Sex View
Giorgi Botchorishvili, John Cabot University
Nietzsche, Creditor-Debtor Relationships, and Seppuku
Shawn Kalmykov, Seattle University
Putting Intelligence Courage Back in its Place
Lin Pak Lung (Edwin), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Reworking ‘Work’: UBI Between Dissonance and Distribution
Shanna Shuler, University College Cork
Chief Editors
Morgan Kopish
Taryn Ogasawara
Editors/Reviewers
Yvianna Estrella
Cameron Cheng
Trista Lara
Oscar Wang
Willis He
Artist
Ruby McClure
Communication and Management
Elian Hijmans Malessy
Falsafa, Issue 6, Spring 2024
Contents
The Internal Dialectic of Cosmopolitanism: Evaluating the Cosmopolitan Language Problem
Rivers Lenholt, Rollins College
A Critique of Contemporary Feminism: Social Media and Digital Misogyny
Juan Miguel Moreno, University of Santo Tomas
Visualizing Invisibility: An Analysis of the Invisibility of Black Experiences
Matthew Querfeld, Fordham University
Selfhood, Reality, and Embodiment in the Kena Upaniṣad and Descartes’ Meditations
Jaret Rushing, Vanderbilt University
An Ethical Framework for Integration: Evaluating the Conflict Between Cultural Freedom and Social Cohesion
Anjali Zyla, Northeastern University
Chief Editors
Morgan Kopish
Taryn Ogasawara
Editors/Reviewers
Jinichiro Fukusumi
Morgan Kopish
Trista Lara
Taryn Ogasawara
Shao-Heng Tsai
Oscar Wang
Fei Yang
Artist
Ruby McClure
Communication and Management
Elian Hijmans Malessy
Falsafa, Issue 4, Winter 2021
Falsafa, Issue 5, Fall 2021
Contents
Knowledge as Justified True Belief Wherein No Contradictory Evidence is Obtainable for the Holder
Katsuki Ishihara, McGill University
The Subjectivity of Personal Identity
James Rogers, University of Cambridge
No Predicative-Quantificational Ambiguity: On Hanson’s Problem for Evolutionary Debunking
Isaac Hadfield, Trinity College, University of Oxford
Challenge Trials in Vaccine Development: An Institutional Moral Failure
Avery Caulfield, Tufts University
Chief and Deputy Chief Editor
Maggie Lajoie
Bradley Holder
Managing Editors
James McDaniel
Meredith Sneed
Publishers
Jaqueline Markham
Xuehong Zhao
Designer
Chelsey Taniguchi
Editors
Alexandros Gkikas
Autumn Gahagan
Emma Kerro
Haley Dyson
Jaqueline Markham
Safari Rugui
Xuehong Zhao
Falsafa, Issue 3, Summer 2020
Contents
Sexual Harassment and the Ethics of Care: A Response to Sexist Criticisms of the #MeToo
Emma Seip, Queen’s University
Friendship, Sexual Promises, and the Moral Permissibility of Monogamy
David Conforti, University of Toronto
Is There Room for Laozi’s Ancient Chinese Philosophy in the Contemporary World?
Lucy Hope James, University of Liverpool
“Unless we stand up on and build our OWN front door”: Fanfiction and the Archive of Our Own as a Structural Response to Epistemic Injustice
Yip Sze Kay, National University of Singapore
Chief Editors
Danilo Escobar
Paulina Guajardo
Zahrah Kabbara
Editors/Reviewers
Maleeha Bhadki
Soo Bin Cho
Adrian Hernandez
Adrian Perez
Design and Publication
Paulina Guajardo
Communication and Management
Jake Li
Falsafa, Issue 2, Winter 2019
The second issue is out! We’re so glad to have been able to work with all of the submissions and editors that we did.
Contents
Expanding Histories: the Tlamatini in the Ancient Nahua Tradition
Cynthia Gonzalez, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Philosophy of Imagination and William Blake’s Jesus
Peter Klapes, Boston College
Of Hearts and Kings: The Body Politic and Metaphor in Al-Farabi’s Perfect State
Elias König, Free University of Berlin
Lives That (Don’t) Matter: The Construction of Abjection in the Public Consciousness
Kelsey Rij, Fresno Pacific University
Chief Editors
Matthew Wang Downing
Alisa Egecioglu
Elise Hughes
Xinruo Li
Editors / Reviewers
Nolan Zoltan Berge
Soo Bin Cho
Matthew Wang Downing
Alisa Egecioglu
Danilo Escobar
Paulina Guajardo
Elise Hughes
Nina Huynh
Zahrah Kabbara
Stephon X Jones
Jake Li
Xinruo Li
Karina Martinez
Orbellin Portillo Blancas
Jason Schwartz
Emma Springer
Atiyeh Taghiei
Design and Publication
Matthew Wang Downing
Communication and Management
Adrian Perez
Falsafa, Issue 1, Spring 2018
We are proud to present the inaugural issue of Falsafa! We hope you enjoy reading it!
Contents
A Simplified Definition of Gaslighting and its Social Scope
Lorenzo Benitez, Cornell University
Gendering History: Investigating a Historical Materialist Account of Patriarchy
Natalie Cernius, Harvard University
How Epistemic Exploitation Contributes to Active Ignorance and Epistemic Injustice
Jo-Anna Hagen Schuller, University of Edinburgh
Skillful Teaching of Dao: The Language Use of Zhuangzi
Yuka Kamamoto, Nanyang Technological University
Is There Something It Is Like to Sleep?
Dhruv Raman, Ashoka University
Moving Towards a Transsexual Metaphysics: An Account of (Trans)sexed Embodiment and (Gender) Dysphoria
Sofie Vlaad, Queen’s University
Of A Like Mind: Exploring Interpretations of Ibn Rushd’s Monopsychism
Abigail E. Whalen, University of Notre Dame
Chief Editors
Tanuj Raut
Adrian Perez
Editors / Reviewers
Ceejay Abarca
Matthew Downing
Alisa Egecioglu
Elise Hughes
Aditya Iyengar
Xinruo Li
Jake Li
Maya Lyubomirsky
Karina Martinez
Orbellin Portillo Blancas
Jason Schwartz
Emma Springer
Atiyeh Taghiei
Design and Publication
Ellis Diaz
Matthew Downing
Alisa Egecioglu
Elise Hughes
Zahrah Kabbara
Tanuj Raut
Jason Schwartz
Communication and Management
Nolan Zoltan Berge
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